After heavy criticism, Facebook released the Q1 2021 transparency report regarding the most-viewed content on its platform.
This was previously shelved and now popped up with a fair reason shared by the company’s policy manager. Facebook had also shared its Q2 2021 transparency report last week.
Most-Viewed Content on Facebook
Facebook decided to release a quarterly transparency report revealing the most-viewed content and other similar information in the period for unknown reasons.
This could be because a tech columnist of The New York Times – Kevin Roose – was curating and sharing the daily lists of the top-performing US Facebook pages from a Facebook-owned content analytics platform called CrowdTangle.
Reason apart, the company held the transparency report of this year’s Q1 and released it now after being demanded. This was shared by Facebook’s policy communications manager Andy Stone on Saturday, along with an explanation for the delay;
We’ve been getting criticism for holding an internal report until it was more favorable for us and then releasing it. Getting criticism isn’t unfair. But it’s worth taking a closer look — and making note of some of the components of the story. — Andy Stone (@andymstone) August 21, 2021
